What is more wonderful then a mother?

My mother was very excited when Ringling came to North Dakota for the first time in over 30 years. We finally got her calmed down, and to promise that she wouldn't do any thing to embarrass me. She promised, and then reneged. Note the T shirts she had made to wear to opening night. From the left my sister Greta, Adam in front(he wouldn't wear his shirt) behind her my sister in law Cindy and my brother Mike who trains animals in France, my dear mother Gertrude, Eric and myself, and my brother Keith and his son Asa. In front is my second cousin Dean